trackwalker Wrote:
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> Watching the video, I was remembering seeing those
> SP chip cars (or something quite similar) in real
> life eons ago on a family trip down south. Now, I
> wonder; how did they dump them? I am familiar with
> the chip cars here in the Northwest, and the end
> dumping. So,perhaps someone can explain how they
> dumped.

On the GC gons as pictured there was a center beam running down the length of the car. On either side I guess you would call them trapdoors, which were used for bottom dumping.